HTTP resources and specifications

HTTP was first specified in the early 1990s. Designed with extensibility in mind, it has seen numerous additions over the years; this lead to its specification being scattered through numerous specification documents (in the midst of experimental abandoned extensions). This page lists relevant resources about HTTP.

HTTP Extensions for Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)These extensions of the Web, as well as CardDAV and CalDAV, are out-of-scope for HTTP on the Web. Modern APIs for application are defines using the RESTful pattern nowadays.